Genealogy Seekers: Community Cookbooks - Finding Family, Friends and Lost Recipes with Catherine Lambrecht

Program Type:

Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on December 15, 2025 @ 10:00am.

Event Details

Catherine Lambrecht has been working for several years acquiring and documenting Highland Park's community cookbooks. To date, over 32 Highland Park cookbooks have been found and/or identified. Learn how to find community cookbooks and possibly discover a family recipe of your own! 

Catherine Lambrecht is a veteran of culinary competitions at the Lake County and Illinois State Fairs, a former University of Illinois Extension volunteer whose specialties were Master Food Preserver and Master Gardener, and a founder of Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, Chicago Foodways Roundtable (sister organization to Culinary Historians of Chicago) and LTHforum.com, a Chicago culinary chat site.

Catherine is also program director for the Highland Park Historical Society and until recently Illinois Mycological Association (Mushroom Club) and editor of Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair, A Bicentennial Project. For Catherine, a day spent well is when she learns something new.

 

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